Turnabout is fair play

How it's done to you, and how you can turn the tables on government, corporate, and private spies and censors, both online and off

In the good old days you usually knew who your enemies were. For instance, virtually all the citizens of the USSR knew their government was evil, and likely spying on them at every opportunity, just looking for a reason to lock them up or torture or 'disappear' them to parts unknown. They also knew such spying was often done merely to see what joys in life lowly citizens might still possess, so that higher ups might rob them of such things on a whim-- or use the information for purposes of blackmail/coercion. Whether it was financial wealth, beautiful women, beloved children, or simply very valuable (or dangerous to the status quo) ideas.

Today the USSR is defunct-- though Vladimir Putin, inspired by George W. Bush's astonishing breaking of America in a mere six years, is striving mightily to reassemble the Cold War titan, and its infamous iron grip on its populace.

Putin was partly inspired by the new American police state which Bush-Cheney-McCain Republicans are rapidly constructing. That police state includes perhaps the most expensive and comprehensive secrecy and surveillance apparatus the Earth has ever seen.

Horrified yet? Yes, it's pretty bad. But until they completely shut down the internet, you can still find and collect information on how to reduce or fill with errors what the bastards can dig up on you. And maybe even spy on some of the bastards themselves, in turnabout!

Please check out the references below and save the best to your local disk as soon as possible. For there's literally no telling how long such information will remain available.